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ESPIONAGE AND PIRACY ON THE ELIZABETHAN HIGH SEAS
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[[ELIZABETH I/MANUSCRIPT]] Privy Council Document, one leaf. Sept. 23, 1599.
Highly evocative manuscript document from the reign of Elizabeth I, signed by her entire Privy Council with the exception of Essex, who was directing the ill-fated Irish Campaign.
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EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED IN LATIN & GREEK
IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND
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AESCHINES/DEMOSTHENES. [ED REUCHLIN, Johannes]. ТΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΕΞΟΧΩΝ ΡΗΤΟΡΩΝ Άισχινου καί Δημοσθενους…Graeciae excellentissium Oratorum, Aeschinis & Demosthenis, orations adversariae. Paris, Christian Wechel, 1543.
Two extremely rare separately issued Paris student editions of Morceaux choisis of two of the Attic orators as edited by the great German humanist Reuchlin, along with an early, if not the earliest separate edition of Isocrates’ Helen, editorship apparently anonymous.
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Incunable Invective
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[INTERNATIONAL LAW / MAXIMILIAN I] Anonymous. Contra falsas Francorum litteras pro defensione honoris serenissimi Romanorum Regis. Augsburg, Erhard Ratdolt, [1492].
Very rare early printing of this piece of anti-French propaganda with which King Maximilian (Emperor 1493-1519) reacted to a double affront by Charles VIII of France who had stolen his wife and snubbed his daughter.
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BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus. De consolatione philosophiae. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 23 June 1486.
Rare Koberger edition (reprint of 1483) and fine copy of one of the most widely-read contemplative texts of the Middle Ages.
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Cinquecento Romance Printed In Parma
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CAVICEO, Jacopo. Libro del Peregrino Novamente Impresso e Redutto alla sua Syncerita cum la Vita de lo Autore. Parma, Otaviano Salado & Francisco Ugoleto, 1513.
Exceedingly rare, second, and earliest acquirable edition of this romance in the tradition of Boccacio's Filocolo, often compared on a variety of grounds (theme, fantastic elements and language) with the Hypnerotamachia Poliphili.
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